Containers and AWS Lambda: Choosing optimal compute for modern apps

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Compares concrete tradeoffs: Lambda is event-driven with millisecond scaling, integrated with EventBridge/SNS and SQS for buffering, while containers use ECS/EKS and optional AWS Fargate to avoid capacity management. Mentions OCI image support and 10 GB container images for Lambda packaging, and the new fully managed deployment service AWS Proton for infra-as-code plus CI/CD. Gives customer outcomes: Lego rearchitects after a 2017 outage and launches an event-driven hub in 2019; Coca‑Cola builds a touchless dispenser in under 100 days reaching ~30,000 machines; 84% of on‑plan modernizations use a partner.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:17How much do you want to manage?
3. 2:31Abstract away the infrastructure pain
4. 3:46Business drivers for migrating to AWS services
5. 4:54How are customers getting to AWS?
6. 7:00Computing in modern applications
7. 8:27Similarities in approaches
8. 9:30Differences in approaches Containers
9. 11:38Most customers use a combination
10. 12:01Common use cases
11. 14:48Why customers choose Lambda
12. 15:49What does serverless mean?
13. 18:33Event-driven architectures drive reliability and scalability
14. 19:44LEGO uses an event-driven design for scalability
15. 23:15Packaging functions as container images
16. 25:29Why customers choose containers
17. 26:14No boundaries: Run containers where you like Customers have workloads, workflows, and application portfolios that span AWS, on-premises environments, and other clouds
18. 27:53Choosing your container environment
19. 29:44AWS Proton: Consistent code pipeline standards The first fully managed deployment service for container and serverless applications
20. 30:36Modern application computing service landscape
21. 31:32T-Mobile uses both containers and Lambda
22. 32:53Learn containers and serverless

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